WHO chief lauds PM Narendra Modi for India's Covid vaccine efforts

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for supporting Covid vaccine equity. PM Modi's commitment to COVAX & sharing Covid-19 vaccine doses is helping 60 plus countries start vaccinating their healthworkers & other priority groups, he said.

The WHO chief added that he hoped other countries would follow India's example. The Indian govt on Thursday said that India has provided close to 362 lakh doses of anti-coronavirus vaccines to various countries, out of which 67.5 lakh doses have been supplied as grant assistance and 294.44 lakh on commercial basis